Fukuoka cops arrest yakuza in 2012 stabbing

FUKUOKA (TR) – Fukuoka Prefectural Police have arrested upper-level organized crime member in a stabbing incident in Kitakyushu City four years ago, reports NHK (June 3).

Police took Yoshitaka Tanaka, a 50-year-old executive in the Kudo-kai, and six other persons into custody in the stabbing of a male bar manager, 54, in Kokurakita Ward.

At approximately 1:00 a.m. on September 26, 2012 two assailants stabbed the man in the buttocks and leg on a road in front of his apartment before fleeing the scene.

The attack was the fourth that month that targeted employees at restaurants and bars. In another incident, a woman who operates a restaurant was slashed in the face by a knife-wielding man as she exited a taxi. The driver of the cab also suffered injuries to his head after he attempted to thwart the attacker.